Our People
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Principal
Professor Baroness Katherine Willis CBE
Professor Baroness Katherine (Kathy) Willis has been Principal of St Edmund Hall since October 2018.
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Visitor
The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes CH
Lord Patten was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 2003.
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Teddy Hall Community
The College’s student body is made up of undergraduates, postgraduates and Visiting Students, who are members of our Junior Common Room (JCR) and Middle Common Room (MCR)
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Student Representatives
The undergraduate and postgraduates students elect representatives to run their respective committees within the Junior Common Room (JCR) and Middle Common Room (MCR)
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Alumni Perspectives
St Edmund Hall has seen a range of notable alumni from the 17th century onwards – a small selection of Aularians have told us about how they came to join the Hall and how their experiences here have shaped their careers to date
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The Hall Writers' Directory
The Directory is an online resource, a collection of profiles, which celebrates the achievements of writers who have studied or worked at St Edmund Hall